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{{Short description|Australian cricketer}}
{{Other people}}
{{BLP sources|date=October 2009}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Jimmy Maher
| image = Jimmy Maher.jpg
| country = Australia
| full_name = James Patrick Maher
| nickname = Mahbo
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|2|27|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Innisfail, Queensland]], Australia
| heightcm = 182
| batting = Left-handed
| bowling = Right-arm medium
| role = [[Batsman]]

| international = true
| internationalspan = 1998–2003
| odidebutdate = 14 January
| odidebutyear = 1998
| odidebutagainst = New Zealand
| odicap = 137
| lastodidate = 9 November
| lastodiyear = 2003
| lastodiagainst = New Zealand
| odishirt = 46

| club1 = [[Queensland cricket team|Queensland]]
| year1 = {{nowrap|1993/94–2007/08}}
| club2 = [[Glamorgan County Cricket Club|Glamorgan]]
| year2 = 2001
| club3 = Glamorgan
| year3 = 2003
| club4 = [[Durham County Cricket Club|Durham]]
| year4 = 2005–2006
| club5 = Glamorgan
| year5 = 2007
| club6 = Hyderabad Heroes
| year6 = 2008

| columns = 4
| column1 = [[One Day International|ODI]]
| matches1 = 26
| runs1 = 438
| bat avg1 = 25.76
| 100s/50s1 = 0/1
| top score1 = 95
| deliveries1 = –
| wickets1 = –
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = 18/–
| column2 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| matches2 = 206
| runs2 = 13,149
| bat avg2 = 38.78
| 100s/50s2 = 27/61
| top score2 = 223
| deliveries2 = 852
| wickets2 = 10
| bowl avg2 = 50.40
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 3/11
| catches/stumpings2 = 210/3
| column3 = [[List A cricket|LA]]
| matches3 = 214
| runs3 = 7,439
| bat avg3 = 39.15
| 100s/50s3 = 16/36
| top score3 = 187
| deliveries3 = 165
| wickets3 = 6
| bowl avg3 = 28.00
| fivefor3 = 0
| tenfor3 = 0
| best bowling3 = 3/29
| catches/stumpings3 = 104/1
| column4 = [[Twenty20|T20]]
| matches4 = 18
| runs4 = 366
| bat avg4 = 26.14
| 100s/50s4 = 0/3
| top score4 = 59
| deliveries4 = –
| wickets4 = –
| bowl avg4 = –
| fivefor4 = –
| tenfor4 = –
| best bowling4 = –
| catches/stumpings4 = 4/–
| medaltemplates = 
{{MedalSport|Men's [[Cricket]]}}
{{MedalCountry |{{AUS}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[ICC Cricket World Cup]]}}
{{Medal|W|[[2003 Cricket World Cup|2003 South Africa-Zimbabwe-Kenya]]|}}
| date = 7 August
| year = 2017
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6256/6256.html CricketArchive
}}

'''James Patrick Maher''' (born 27 February 1974) is an Australian former [[cricket]]er, who played One Day Internationals. He is "an attractive left-handed batsman with a clumping cover-drive".<ref name="Cricinfo">{{cite web | url=http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/6462.html| title=Jimmy Maher | access-date=16 January 2007 | date=June 2006 | publisher=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref> He was a part of the Australian squad which won the [[2003 Cricket World Cup]].

Maher competed in the [[Gladiators (Australian series 3)|Gladiator Team Sports Challenge]] in 1995.

==Domestic career==
The following two seasons were a prolific pair for Maher playing for [[Queensland Bulls|Queensland]], a time which included a period at [[Glamorgan County Cricket Club|Glamorgan]]. In 2001–02, he became the first batsman to reach 1000 runs in the [[Pura Cup]].

On 25 February 2007, Maher was named Man of the Match in the Ford Rangers Cup Final against the [[Victorian Bushrangers]] after making 108 from 133 balls. The [[Queensland Bulls]] went on to win the match by 21 runs.<ref name="Cricinfo - Baggygreen">{{cite web | url=http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/australia/engine/match/251659.html | title=Victoria Vs Queensland | access-date=26 February 2007 | date=February 2007 | publisher=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref> It was the third time that he had scored a century for Queensland in a One Day domestic final.

He retired from all types of [[cricket]] at the end of the Australian 2007–08 domestic season. Soon afterwards, he joined the [[Zee Telefilms]]' rebel [[Indian Cricket League]], playing for the Hyderabad Heroes as an opening batsman.

Having spent two season at [[Durham County Cricket Club|Durham]] Maher played for [[Glamorgan County Cricket Club|Glamorgan]] in 2007 after supporters funded the signing.<ref>[http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/australia/content/story/281292.html Supporters pay for Maher's return to Glamorgan], ESPNcricinfo, Retrieved on 17 October 2007</ref>

==International career==
He was first selected to play for [[Australia national cricket team|Australia]] in two one-day matches in 1997–98, due to illness and injury respectively to [[Mark Waugh]] and [[Steve Waugh]].

He came back into the international fold in 2002, after the Waugh brothers were sacked following an ODI season in which Australia failed to make the finals of the triangular ODI series. He responded with a steady innings of 95 against [[South Africa cricket team|South Africa]]. He was included in the Australian ODI squad as a spare batsman and as a fill-in wicketkeeper for the next few seasons, including the [[2003 Cricket World Cup]].

==Controversy==
On 11 February 2007 Maher was criticised by [[South Australia cricket team|South Australian cricket]] captain [[Darren Lehmann]] for not declaring to make a game of their [[Pura Cup]] match at the [[The Gabba|Gabba]]. Lehmann said he thought he was playing [[Tasmania cricket team|Tasmania]] referring to Tasmania's reliance on final day run chases.<ref name="AdelaideNow">{{cite news | url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWGLNB&req_dat=1054640702C8DBC0&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F117428293A01BF28 | title=Lehmann vows to make Bulls Fry | access-date=12 February 2007 | date=February 2007 | publisher=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] | via=Newsbank | first1=Jim | last1=Morton }}</ref>

Maher caused controversy in 1995 following Queensland's [[Sheffield Shield]] win over South Australia, when he said during a television interview "I'm as full as a [[Racial slur|coon]]'s [[Chrysler Valiant|Valiant]]". [[Indigenous Australians]] criticised Maher for his statement and its racial undertone. Maher later publicly apologised over the statement.<ref>''Koori Mail'', "Maher apologises at Shield celebration", 19 April 1995, p. 16.</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{ESPNcricinfo|id=6462}}

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{{Succession box|title=[[Queensland Bulls|Queensland]] [[ING Cup (cricket)|ING Cup]] captain|before=[[Stuart Law]]|after=[[Chris Simpson (cricketer)|Chris Simpson]]|years=2002/03–2007/08}}
{{Succession box|title=[[Queensland Bulls|Queensland]] [[Pura Cup]] captain|before=[[Stuart Law]]|after=[[Chris Simpson (cricketer)|Chris Simpson]]|years=2002/03–2007/08}}
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[[Category:Australian expatriate cricketers in England]]
[[Category:ICL World XI cricketers]]
[[Category:Hyderabad Heroes cricketers]]
[[Category:People from Innisfail, Queensland]]
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